NP - Matt Tabbi

[Mark Thibodeau]

I can't tell you how disappointing Taibbi's recent turn towards
"America Always in the Wrong" style opinioneering has been to me,
personally. First on Russia (which you'd think he would be well
positioned to help readers understand, but he's done nothing on that
front AT ALL), and now on Ukraine and Turkey? Shit, man. VERY
disappointed.

I've been following Matt's work since the eXile and the Buffalo Beast
for Pete's sake. In retrospect, maybe it was always his sense of humor
that I found more appealing and impressive than his analytic acumen,
which has been worse than lacking of late... it's been positively
AWOL.

Jerky

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 4:47 AM peterthooper at juno.com
<peterthooper at juno.com> wrote:
>
> Interesting life that Matt Taibbi’s led. Parlayed a year abroad beyond anybody’s wildest dreams:
>
> He attended New York University but transferred after his freshman year to Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York and graduated in 1992.[13][14] He spent a year abroad studying at Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University in Russia.
>
> Career
> Uzbekistan
> In the early 1990s, Taibbi moved from Saint Petersburg to Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where he began selling news articles more regularly. He was deported in 1992 for writing an article for the Associated Press that was critical of President Islam Karimov. At the time of his deportation, Taibbi was the starting left fielder for the Uzbek national baseball team.[15][4][3]
>
> Mongolia
> Taibbi moved to Ulan Bator, Mongolia for a time in the mid-1990s, where he played professional basketball in the Mongolian Basketball Association (MBA), which, he says, is the only basketball league outside the US that uses the same rules as the NBA. Taibbi became known as "The Mongolian Rodman", was paid $100/month to play, and says he also hosted a radio show while there.[16][17][18] He later contracted pneumonia and returned to Boston for surgery.[19]
>
> The eXile
> Taibbi moved to Russia in 1992.[20] He lived and worked in Russia and the former USSR for more than six years.
>
> Starting left-fielder *and* pro basketball!
> Well done, Mr T!
>
> Anyhoo -
>
> I won’t say he’s right about this, he lost me when he poo-pooed Russiagate.
>
> But voter suppression is a much bigger cause of Republican victory - eg
>
> https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/national-party-news/311099-skeptical-70000-black-voters-abstained-from%3Famp
>
> Why would Jill Stein have to carry the recount banner alone?
>
> For that matter, Rahm Emmanuel abandoning the 50 state strategy did lastingly more to lose elections than a bunch of Facebook detritus and Guccifer bozology.
>
> imho! And leaving Reality Winner’s disclosures out of the field of disdain.
>
> But as to Taibbi’s current article, at least while swallowing this article, Breitbart et al are also ingesting his description of “infamously corrupt individual, Donald Trump, a pussy-grabbing scammer who bragged about using bankruptcy to escape debt and publicly praised Vladimir Putin”
>
> Even if that’s what they like about him, they don’t usually say so.
>
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Subject: NP - Matt Tabbi
> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 14:23:03 -0500
>
> https://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2019/10/matt-taibbi-finds-his-audience.html
>
>
>  A few days ago, as part of his newsletter, Matt Taibbi published "We're in
> a Permanent Coup,"  a
> denunciation of oversight and impeachment efforts aimed at Donald Trump.
> This post has found a wide and enthusiastic readership:
>
> Here,
>
> for
> instance:
>
>
>
> And here:
>
>
>
> Here,
>
>  too:
>
>
> [...]
>
> Congratulations, Matt, on all your new readers!
>
>
> Virus-free.
> www.avg.com
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